We human beings anthropomorphize recklessly.
We human beings anthropomorphize non-human things recklessly. We ascribe human characteristics to animals, machines and even food.
For example; I have three cats, each of them have distinct personalities; Suzy the mother cat, is very smart, affectionate and quite pushy at times. Leo is a free spirit; he has a touch of wild animal in him and he’s basically a loner, and Fluffy…Fluffy is full of mischief. My cats probably think to be generalized in human terms is an insult…oops, there I go again…thinking of them in a human way.
How many times have we heard people refer to a car as “she?” And as for the anthropomorphization of food, we have Veggie tales, Mayor McCheese and the Cool-Aid guy.
How often do we think of God as a human being? After all we are created in God’s image, but isn’t He is so far beyond our image that we are remiss to think of Him in merely human parameters? The first step of wisdom is the fear of God, reverent, awed, overwhelmed, enthralled respect for our creator, the Author of Life, the Great Physician, the Lover of our Souls, the Man of Sorrows.
The beautiful fact is, God did take human form…Jesus Christ. Talk about a step down, but that’s real love now isn’t it? Even in His humanity, Christ’s godly side was clearly recognizable: blind were given back their sight, lame were made to walk, the dead were raised, the devil was cast out of tormented souls…and there’s the glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ himself!
I am trying not to carelessly anthropomorphize my Lord anymore. He can do so much more than we can dream. No earthly problem is too difficult for him, there is no kryptonite, no foe too formidable, no limit to His power and we can’t out think Him, hide from Him or predict His will….praise the God of the Universe, because He loves you and He even loves me!
